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Universal Home Video has revealed artwork for the special edition releases

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Universal Home Video has announced 1-disc DVD, 2-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray releases of Inglourious Basterds for the 15th December. The only extra material on the 1-disc DVD will be extended and alternate scenes, the Nation’s Pride film, and domestic and international trailers. The 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray releases will include all that, along with a Roundtable Discussion with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and film historian/critic Elvis Mitchell, featurettes ("Making of Nation’s Pride", "The Original Inglorious Bastards", "Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitters - the Australian Beer", "Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel"), a conversation with actor Rod Taylor, a gag reel, a Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitch, a poster gallery, and a digital copy.

Synopsis

Quote: In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as “the Basterds,” Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own....

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williams411 wrote: As a big fan of Tarantino's work, I was very dissapointed with this film. I thought it was way too long and very boring at times. I hope that Quentin will get back on track and provide us with a good film next time. I certainly will not be purchasing this film.

boring? the final "showdown" between the bride and bill... now THAT was boring, only because carradine couldn't pull off tarantino's dialogue if his life depended on it. but the casting in this film was just plain excellent. tarantino's dialogue had never before felt so natural and organic as it did in this film. there was always that point in his previous films where you thought to yourself, "is he serious??? he's really pushing it. who the f**k talks like this?" but here, it just felt right. waltz was just superb as landa. and not to mention that the script was very clever. loved the many plants-and-payoffs in this.

now, im not attacking you for thinking the film was boring. i can actually sympathize with you a little. i just got done watching it for the third time with a group of people. i could sense a little boredom from them in a couple parts of the film, but at what moments they found boring, i found fascinating in a way. i loved the quiet moments in the film, maybe even more so than the loud and violent parts.

*SPOILER*

there was this moment in the film when landa orders two pastries, one for himself and one for emmanuelle/shoshanna, with a coffee for him, and a glass of milk for her. this was a hint at a scene that was shown at the beginning of the film where landa asks for a glass of milk just before he has shoshanna's family massacred.

*END SPOILERS*

there were many quiet moments like this that built up really great tension, but for some, might not have been appreciated as much. alfred hitchcock says this in an interview with truffaut:

"Let us suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, “Boom!” There is an explosion. The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Now, let us take a suspense situation. The bomb is underneath the table and the audience knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there. The public is aware that the bomb is going to explode at one o’clock and there is a clock in the decor. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. In these conditions this same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: “You shouldn’t be talking about such trivial matters. There’s a bomb beneath you and it’s about to explode!”

"In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed."

As a big fan of Tarantino's work, I was very dissapointed with this film. I thought it was way too long and very boring at times. I hope that Quentin will get back on track and provide us with a good film next time. I certainly will not be purchasing this film.

I think I will buy the 1-disc edition. I didn't like the film enough to really care about extra material, it was an excellent film, but I like the artwork for the 1-disc release and I doubt I watch all the extras on the 2-disc.

Pythonofdoom wrote: I WISH ALL COMPANIES WOULD DO THERE SPECIAL FEATURES LIKE THIS!!!! At least some companies still have 2-disk DVDs loaded w/special features!

i dont. companies need to continue having special features that are only available on blu-ray. until the rest of the world decides to join us blu-ray shoppers, they will continue to be slow release/expensive as s**t. catch up with the times.

i might pick this up. quentin let me down with his last few movies. and are we to believe there will be no "Extended" or "Unrated" cut of this movie? well, at least instead of stealing other peoples work, he's actually doing remakes now. thats like authorized theft

the movie was different i liked it but i wish it hadmore action scenes i will buy the 2 disc don't know if i'll get blu ray or not the whole widescreen with out the bars piss me off, and the no menu or chapters just going to the movie playing isn't cool

kevinnash wrote: It's funny you say that. This was, in my opinion, precisely the reason the film was so GOOD. The basterds were probably the least interesting characters in the whole film, though Universal's advertising would tell you differently.

i understand that...but only in so much that they weren't that interesting because we didn't have anything explore them really. we have the brief recruitment, the interrogation, then before they meet up at the bar. i think one or two exploratory scene would have been welcomed.

I really wanted to see this in theaters,but missed out,glad to see it coming out before Christmas,as I can ask for it as a gift,if only I could say the same thing about another movie that I also didn't get to see....*cough*District 9*cough*.

blackbird wrote: i did really enjoy this movie, and will definitely pick it up as soon as i can on dvd, i guess my only problem is that when i think about it, it was only barely half about the basterds. there should have been just a little more of all of them together.

It's funny you say that. This was, in my opinion, precisely the reason the film was so GOOD. The basterds were probably the least interesting characters in the whole film, though Universal's advertising would tell you differently.

Anyway, I went into this film with admittedly low expectations, but it is my favorite movie of the year thus far.

lee09 wrote: Its funny and I wanted to state this, but Inglorious made more money on foreign countries alone than in total U.S box office receipts. U.S audiences rather seats through c**ppy, and I mean c**ppy films such as: The Stepfather, Obsessed over fine cinema. Pity, they don't know what their missing.

Inglourious Basterds made more domestically than The Stepfather and Obsessed combined.

Its funny and I wanted to state this, but Inglorious made more money on foreign countries alone than in total U.S box office receipts. U.S audiences rather seats through c**ppy, and I mean c**ppy films such as: The Stepfather, Obsessed over fine cinema. Pity, they don't know what their missing.

i did really enjoy this movie, and will definitely pick it up as soon as i can on dvd, i guess my only problem is that when i think about it, it was only barely half about the basterds. there should have been just a little more of all of them together.

For a movie that QT claims to have been working on for so many years, this movie is a real letdown. It's good enough but good enough just isn't good enough! I may buy this somewhere down the line to complete my QT collection, but it's no first day buy for me. Maybe I need to watch it once more. But I was disappointed from when I read the script the first time.

When the first few QT movies released, it was a very exciting period with loaded 2 disc editions of Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and From Dusk Till Dawn. But now we get bare-bones Kill Bill DVDs and incomplete Grindhouse experience DVDs. I haven't bought those yet, despite the sheer enjoyment that is Kill Bill Vol. 1. I'm one of those fools who just hopes that some day we will get complete releases of Kill Bill and Grindhouse.

matt86 wrote: I was mostly bored with this but i know i am in the minority. I just wish QT would do movies like he used to, whether it be writing or directing or both.

You and me both man, I completely agree with you. I normally love his movies, all of them, but this was just a borefest. I will watch it again on DVD because I saw it at a late showing, and I was sick and I had just gotten off of work....maybe my opinion will change.

The best thing in the trailer to me was when Brad Pitt says "We're gonna be doin' one thang and one thang only... killin' Nat-zees"....something about the way he delivers the line is frickin' hilarious. I bugged the sh*t out of my roommates for weeks repeating that line at the most random times, particularly while playing Wolfenstein. Good stuff...

As for the movie itself, I have my doubts about how well the whole thing holds up (Tarantino is really hit-or-miss with me), but I will reserve final judgement until I actually see it.